Peter P. Benac wrote:
Mike,
You obviously haven't heard all the news about what AOL and Yahoo are
about to do.
First AOL blocked you be cause one or more of those people you
forward mail for has hit that little button that says "This is SPAM".
AOL doesn't really care if the user requested the mail to be
forwarded. All they care about is you sent spam to a user who marked
it as spam.
Get enough of these and they block the IP.
We are not alone!!!!! I have been watching this happen for a few weeks
now. I was just speaking with the CEO and telling him I have not decided
how to approach the mail lists about this, though I wanted to ask to see
if anyone else is having this problem.
I have seen several instances of this,
1) A website we host requires registration, user enters any ole email
address to get in, sometimes it is an AOL address. ezmlm sends a
confirmation notice before we add them to our subscriber list. Ignorant
AOL user hits "This is Spam". I get a TOS report.
2) User subscribes to a mail list we provide, a [day-year] later they
decide (too much spam|peoplepc is better) and change email addresses,
but they don't update their subscriptions. Next AOL user to get that
address starts exercising the "This is Spam" button. I get a TOS report.
3) User needs to provide an email address for whatever reason, they miss
spell their email address as [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of
[EMAIL PROTECTED], meanwhile [EMAIL PROTECTED] starts exercising the
"This is Spam" button. I get a TOS report.
The problem is that AOL does not make their users accountable for the
action with the "This is Spam" button.
We have not chosen a course of action yet. It looks as if the only
*solution* is to not send any mail to AOL accounts. From a business
standpoint this is not acceptable. But, if AOL users will tag a
confirmation message as Spam, what's an admin to do?
DAve
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found to not contain any SPAM whatsoever.
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